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Mar 2012

California ban on driver cellphone use is saving lives, study says

Fewer Californians are dying in traffic accidents caused by hand-held cellphone use, according to a study by the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center at UC Berkeley. Traffic deaths declined by 22% in the two years after the...

01

Mar 2012

LAPD asks community to help break 'cycle of violence' at packed Wilmington meeting

A standing-room-only crowd of parents and community leaders met at Hawaiian Avenue Elementary in Wilmington Thursday night to discuss recent murders and how to make the city safer. (Robert Casillas / Staff Photographer) Police implored...

29

Feb 2012

More 405 Freeway closures start Friday night

Southbound lanes of the San Diego (405) Freeway will be closed Friday and Saturday nights, as part of the ongoing reconstruction of the Mulholland Bridge, according to Metro. The closures will be from the 101 freeway to Getty Center Drive...

28

Feb 2012

Drugged -- not drunk -- driving steadily rising in California

While drunk driving fatalities are on the decline, a state agency this week warned that the number of deadly crashes involving drugged California motorists has been steadily increasing over at least four years. Officials with the...